Dr. Joshua Coleman

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727 appearances 3 recordings 2 series first heard May 2026 last heard 9 Jul

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Good Life Project · Healing Family Estrangement: What To Say, And What Never to Say. · 9 Jul 2026 podcast
Mental illness in the parent or addictions in the parent are common, but also in the adult child.
Bad therapy.
Therapists have sort of assumed that every problem in adulthood comes from a dysfunctional family, which is just simply not the case.
Divorce is huge.
Also in my survey, it was a significant percentage of the people who became estranged had a divorce in their past.
And sometimes it's just normal separation individuation that causes the adult child to need more distance from the parent.
So when I meet with a parent, typically it's the parent that reaches out to me, and typically it's because the adult child is the one who's done the estrangement.
And you're right, often...
Not infrequently, they're like, I have no idea.
I was a really good parent.
And they'll show me a letter that just a year before said, best mom or best dad ever.
I'm so grateful for you.
And now they're rewriting history.
And again, there can be those various pathways to cause an adult child depression.
to land with that kind of a narrative.
So my method is really to help the parent to deepen their understanding of the adult child's reasons for the estrangement, to show empathy, to take responsibility, to find the kernel, if not the bushel, of truth in the reason that the child is estranged.
which can be hard for parents, but there's really no other pathway back.
And the reason for that is that nothing compels an adult child today to have a relationship with a parent beyond that adult child's desire.
So if the parent isn't really willing to do the work, which means being more self-reflective, more psychological, more egalitarian, then the adult child is going to say, well, this relationship just doesn't work for me.
You're not respecting my boundaries.
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